## Why
Realtime history should be recorded consistently for every Core host, including
when no app-server event listener is attached.
## What changed
- Move transcript segmentation, session boundaries, and backing-agent artifact
promotion into Core for paginated threads.
- Persist canonical realtime items through the thread store in event order and
emit dedicated history lifecycle events for hosts to present.
- Translate those Core events into the existing app-server realtime item
notifications without app-server persisting the items a second time.
## Testing
- Cover Core-only persistence across repeated sessions, ephemeral sessions,
accepted and rejected steering, typed input ordering, and artifact promotion.
- Verify app-server notifications correspond to the persisted timeline.
GitOrigin-RevId: 7cbef14129d77f6d6d7099b733be91f5279c55f5
## Why
Clients that create and negotiate realtime calls themselves need Codex to join
those calls without creating another call or overwriting the client-owned
session configuration.
## What changed
- Add the `existingCall` transport to `thread/realtime/start`, accepting a
client-provided `callId` and optional `realtimeSessionId`.
- Attach Codex over the call's sideband WebSocket without SDP negotiation or a
session update, and reconnect that sideband while preserving transcript
state.
- Default existing calls to realtime v1, support v1 and v3, and reject v2 or
options that would reconfigure the client-owned session.
- Encode call IDs as a single URL path segment for v3 sideband connections.
## Testing
Add protocol, app-server, core, reconnection, authentication-header, and URL
encoding coverage for existing-call attachments.
GitOrigin-RevId: 2046b70566f98efa55381bb1e461ea3cc68256c5
## What changed
- Reconnect frameless bidirectional WebRTC sideband sockets after unexpected transport loss with capped exponential backoff.
- Preserve pending text or handoff output and bounded transcript state across reconnects.
- Treat `404 Not Found` and `410 Gone` handshake responses as terminal session completion, and preserve HTTP status information from failed WebSocket handshakes.
- Bound Realtime delegation input and transcript fields while retaining the most relevant portion of each.
## Testing
- Add unit coverage for reconnect backoff, terminal status handling, transport error classification, transcript continuity and truncation, and pending outbound messages.
- Add an end-to-end WebRTC conversation test covering an unclean disconnect, reconnect, transcript reconciliation, outbound progress during sustained inbound traffic, and terminal session completion.
GitOrigin-RevId: 544fd7e542c3434d0bb42cfbcc7143604419a037
## What changed
- Add the optional `delegationAckFiller` field to `thread/realtime/start`.
- Forward explicit `true` or `false` values to V3 Frameless Bidi session payloads as `delegation.ack_filler`; leave the field absent when unspecified so the Realtime API default is preserved.
- Document that V1 and V2 ignore this setting.
## Testing
- Cover both boolean values in Frameless Bidi serialization and verify the WebRTC V3 session creation payload.
GitOrigin-RevId: 9fe8efd14e42738c3e86e3e9a8af81d0f4521244
## What changed
- Use `https://api.openai.com/v1` for WebRTC sideband websocket joins instead of deriving the URL from the model provider.
- Keep `experimental_realtime_ws_base_url` as an explicit sideband override for local development and tests.
- Exclude provider query parameters when building sideband URLs.
## Testing
- Add coverage that a frameless sideband join uses `wss://api.openai.com/v1/live/rtc_test` even when the provider points at the ChatGPT backend.
- Update the sideband retry end-to-end test to inject its mock server URL through the new override.
GitOrigin-RevId: 5d3d2cd69905ba04143010ced36a22712825b563
## What changed
- Add an optional `initialItems` field to `thread/realtime/start` for seeding
realtime V3 session history with `user`, `developer`, and `assistant` text.
- Encode the items in Frameless Bidi session bootstrap payloads for websocket
and WebRTC transports while preserving existing payloads when the list is
omitted or empty.
- Reject non-empty initial items for V1 and V2, more than 128 items, any item
over 8,192 estimated tokens, or a combined total over 8,192 estimated tokens.
## Testing
- Cover protocol serialization, app-server forwarding, websocket and WebRTC
payloads, empty-list compatibility, version checks, and size limits.
GitOrigin-RevId: 09af367f9a07543e3f8d59b7fa5387f932dc5a6a
## What changed
- Add `codexResponseHandoffMode` to `thread/realtime/start` for V3 sessions, with `thinking` as the default and `commentary` and `bemTags` routing modes.
- Map BEM `analysis` and `commentary` output to the commentary channel and `final` output to the speakable channel, while preserving the original BEM envelope. Unrecognized output falls back to speakable.
- Mark explicit speech appends as speakable and stop adding the legacy `"Agent Final Message"` prefix to V3 handoffs. V1 and V2 continue to ignore the new setting.
## Testing
- Cover channel selection for every routing mode, streamed BEM header parsing, fallback behavior, explicit speech, and V1 compatibility.
GitOrigin-RevId: 1974578257488f2914b252c9c1990ba38831c96b
## What changed
- Add realtime conversation version `v3`, which preserves the V1 Codex Voice behavior while using Frameless Bidi `delegation.*` events.
- Translate audio, transcripts, handoffs, session context, and lifecycle events between the app server and the Frameless Bidi wire protocol.
- Support `v3` over WebSocket and WebRTC, including the Frameless `/live` endpoint, session configuration, headers, and default model selection.
- Update the app-server protocol schemas and documentation for the new version.
## Testing
- Add unit coverage for Frameless event parsing, outbound messages, context chunking, URL construction, and call creation.
- Add app-server end-to-end coverage for WebSocket delegation and WebRTC session startup.
GitOrigin-RevId: 79a3307bc209e1a54582ebd2febc07c909fca016
## Why
#31323 introduces `codex-http-client` and leaves compatibility
re-exports in `codex-client`. Low-level HTTP consumers should depend on
the crate that now owns those APIs rather than continuing through the
transitional compatibility layer.
This stacked follow-up makes that ownership explicit and moves the
repository toward enforcing the abstraction without mixing call-site
churn into the extraction itself.
## What changed
- Switched `codex-backend-client`, `codex-cloud-tasks`,
`codex-exec-server`, `codex-login`, and `codex-model-provider` from
`codex-client` to `codex-http-client` where they only use low-level HTTP
APIs.
- Added the direct dependency to `codex-api` for its custom-CA request
and websocket paths while retaining `codex-client` for higher-level
retry and transport policy.
- Updated imports and normalized login's internal client type name from
`CodexHttpClient` to `HttpClient`, while preserving its existing
`CodexRequestBuilder` re-export.
- Updated `Cargo.lock` to reflect the new direct dependency edges.
## Review guide
This PR is intentionally mechanical: 20 files and 92 changed lines, with
no runtime logic changes. The largest diff is
`codex-rs/login/src/auth/default_client.rs`, where the only
semantic-looking changes are type and import renames. The remaining
source changes replace `codex_client` import paths with
`codex_http_client`; the manifest and lockfile changes mirror those
imports.
## Test plan
- Compile-checked `codex-api`, `codex-backend-client`,
`codex-cloud-tasks`, `codex-exec-server`, `codex-login`, and
`codex-model-provider` together.
## Why
A realtime session can end after more transcript has accumulated than
was included in its last handoff. That tail already lives in core's
active transcript state, but the stop path aborted the realtime
input/fanout tasks before routing it, so the final bit of the
conversation could disappear before `thread/realtime/closed`.
This behavior is still being evaluated, so clients must opt in per
realtime session. Omitted or false leaves shutdown behavior unchanged.
## What changed
- Add optional `flushTranscriptTailOnSessionEnd` to
`thread/realtime/start`, defaulting to false in app-server.
- Expose an idempotent `take_transcript_tail()` from the existing active
transcript state using `last_handoff_entry_count`.
- When enabled, let shutdown cancel the input owner cleanly and publish
at most one final existing `<realtime_delegation>` with the remaining
text in `<transcript_delta>`.
- Have the existing fanout drain already-parsed events before routing
that final delegation, so a queued handoff wins first and is not
duplicated in the tail.
- Flush realtime shutdown before ordinary session task abort during core
cleanup.
## Validation
- `just test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `just test -p codex-app-server
realtime_conversation_stop_emits_closed_notification`
- `just test -p codex-core conversation_transport_close_`
- `just test -p codex-core
conversation_close_routes_only_remaining_transcript_tail_once`
- scoped `just fix` for `codex-app-server-protocol`, `codex-app-server`,
`codex-protocol`, and `codex-core`
- `just fmt`
## Why
Frontend realtime voice continuity needs to replay a tiny
previous-session overlap as actual conversation items, including
assistant text. The app-server `thread/realtime/appendText` API already
carries a role through to the Rust realtime websocket layer, but the
shared role enum only accepted `user` and `developer`.
## What Changed
- Added `assistant` to `ConversationTextRole` and regenerated the
app-server schema/type fixtures.
- Added `output_text` as a realtime conversation content type.
- Updated realtime websocket item creation so assistant appendText emits
`content: [{ type: "output_text", text }]`, while user and developer
continue to emit `input_text`.
- Updated app-server docs and tests to cover assistant appendText
alongside the existing developer role behavior.
## Validation
- `just write-app-server-schema`
- `just fmt` (first sandboxed attempt failed because `uv` could not
access `~/.cache/uv`; reran with filesystem access and passed)
- `just test -p codex-api` passed: 126/126
- `just test -p codex-app-server-protocol` passed: 239/239, including
generated JSON/TypeScript fixture checks
- `just test -p codex-app-server` was started locally but stopped per
request after unrelated local sandbox/Seatbelt failures (`sandbox-exec:
sandbox_apply: Operation not permitted`) and one missing local `codex`
binary failure; CI should be faster and more authoritative for the full
suite.
## Summary
Add an explicit `user` or `developer` role to
`thread/realtime/appendText` and propagate it through the realtime input
queue into `conversation.item.create`. Older JSON clients that omit the
field continue to default to `user`.
This lets app-provided context such as memory retain developer authority
without bypassing app-server through a renderer-owned data channel. The
app-server schemas, API documentation, and focused protocol and
websocket coverage are updated with the new contract.
The Codex Apps consumer is tracked in
[openai/openai#1025261](https://github.com/openai/openai/pull/1025261).
## Why
When a realtime session is open without an active frontend-model
handoff, completed Codex assistant messages are currently dropped. That
prevents the frontend model from hearing orchestrator preambles and
final responses produced by typed turns or other non-handoff work, which
makes the two models present as disconnected personas.
Active handoffs already forward each completed assistant message,
including preambles. This change leaves those V1 and V2 paths intact and
fills only the no-active-handoff gap.
## What changed
- Send standalone V1 assistant messages through
`conversation.handoff.append` with a stable synthetic handoff ID
- Send standalone V2 assistant messages as normal `[BACKEND]`
`conversation.item.create` message items, then enqueue `response.create`
so the frontend model responds
- Preserve the existing active V1 and V2 transport and completion
behavior
- Continue excluding user messages from realtime mirroring
- Skip empty output and cap each complete context injection, including
its V2 prefix, at 1,000 tokens
- Add end-to-end coverage for both wire formats, V2 response creation,
preambles, final responses, and truncation
## Test plan
- CI
## Why
Realtime v1 websocket sessions now expect a slightly different boundary
shape for text input, completed input transcripts, and connection
headers. Codex was still using the older shape, so some v1 text appends
could be rejected before the existing conversation flow could handle
them.
## What changed
- Send v1 user text items with `input_text` content
- Accept v1 turn-marked input transcript events as completed transcripts
- Add the v1 alpha header only for v1 realtime sessions
- Cover the outbound text shape, transcript parsing, and versioned
headers
## Test plan
- `cargo test -p codex-api endpoint::realtime_websocket::methods::tests`
- `cargo test -p codex-core quicksilver_alpha_header`
## Summary
Codex is repurposing `session` to mean a thread group, so the realtime
provider session id should no longer use `session_id` / `sessionId` in
Codex-facing protocol payloads. This PR renames that provider-specific
field to `realtime_session_id` / `realtimeSessionId` and intentionally
breaks clients that still send the old field names.
## What Changed
- Renamed realtime provider session fields in `ConversationStartParams`,
`RealtimeConversationStartedEvent`, and `RealtimeEvent::SessionUpdated`.
- Renamed app-server v2 realtime request and notification fields to
`realtimeSessionId`.
- Removed legacy serde aliases for `session_id` / `sessionId`; clients
must send the new names.
- Propagated the rename through core realtime startup, app-server
adapters, codex-api websocket handling, and TUI realtime state.
- Regenerated app-server protocol schema/TypeScript outputs and updated
app-server README examples.
- Kept upstream Realtime API concepts unchanged: provider `session.id`
parsing and `x-session-id` headers still use the upstream wire names.
## Testing
- CI is running on the latest pushed commit.
- Earlier local verification on this PR:
- `cargo test -p codex-protocol`
- `CODEX_SKIP_VENDORED_BWRAP=1 cargo test -p codex-core
realtime_conversation`
- `cargo test -p codex-app-server-protocol`
- `CODEX_SKIP_VENDORED_BWRAP=1 cargo test -p codex-app-server
realtime_conversation`
- attempted `CODEX_SKIP_VENDORED_BWRAP=1 cargo test -p codex-tui` (local
linker bus error while linking the test binary)
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## Summary
- Track how many realtime transcript entries have already been attached
to a background-agent handoff.
- Attach only entries added since the previous handoff as
`<transcript_delta>` instead of resending the accumulated transcript
snapshot.
- Update the realtime integration test so the second delegation carries
only the second transcript delta.
## Validation
- `just fmt`
- `cargo test -p codex-api`
- `cargo test -p codex-core
inbound_handoff_request_sends_transcript_delta_after_each_handoff`
- `cargo build -p codex-cli -p codex-app-server`
## Manual testing
Built local debug binaries at:
- `codex-rs/target/debug/codex`
- `codex-rs/target/debug/codex-app-server`
## Summary
Adds a second realtime v2 function tool, `remain_silent`, so the
realtime model has an explicit non-speaking action when the
collaboration mode or latest context says it should not answer aloud.
This is stacked on #18597.
## Design
- Advertise `remain_silent` alongside `background_agent` in realtime v2
conversational sessions.
- Parse `remain_silent` function calls into a typed
`RealtimeEvent::NoopRequested` event.
- Have core answer that function call with an empty
`function_call_output` and deliberately avoid `response.create`, so no
follow-up realtime response is requested.
- Keep the event hidden from app-server/TUI surfaces; it is operational
plumbing, not user-visible conversation content.
## Summary
This PR aims to improve integration between the realtime model and the
codex agent by sharing more context with each other. In particular, we
now share full realtime conversation transcript deltas in addition to
the delegation message.
realtime_conversation.rs now turns a handoff into:
```
<realtime_delegation>
<input>...</input>
<transcript_delta>...</transcript_delta>
</realtime_delegation>
```
## Implementation notes
The transcript is accumulated in the realtime websocket layer as parsed
realtime events arrive. When a background-agent handoff is requested,
the current transcript snapshot is copied onto the handoff event and
then serialized by `realtime_conversation.rs` into the hidden realtime
delegation envelope that Codex receives as user-turn context.
For Realtime V2, the session now explicitly enables input audio
transcription, and the parser handles the relevant input/output
transcript completion events so the snapshot includes both user speech
and realtime model responses. The delegation `<input>` remains the
actual handoff request, while `<transcript_delta>` carries the
surrounding conversation history for context.
Reviewers should note that the transcript payload is intended for Codex
context sharing, not UI rendering. The realtime delegation envelope
should stay hidden from the user-facing transcript surface, while still
being included in the background-agent turn so Codex can answer with the
same conversational context the realtime model had.
This is the first mechanical cleanup in a stack whose higher-level goal
is to enable Clippy coverage for async guards held across `.await`
points.
The follow-up commits enable Clippy's
[`await_holding_lock`](https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/master/index.html#await_holding_lock)
lint and the configurable
[`await_holding_invalid_type`](https://rust-lang.github.io/rust-clippy/master/index.html#await_holding_invalid_type)
lint for Tokio guard types. This PR handles the cases where the
underlying issue is not protected shared mutable state, but a
`tokio::sync::mpsc::UnboundedReceiver` wrapped in `Arc<Mutex<_>>` so
cloned owners can call `recv().await`.
Using a mutex for that shape forces the receiver lock guard to live
across `.await`. Switching these paths to `async-channel` gives us
cloneable `Receiver`s, so each owner can hold a receiver handle directly
and await messages without an async mutex guard.
## What changed
- In `codex-rs/code-mode`, replace the turn-message
`mpsc::UnboundedSender`/`UnboundedReceiver` plus `Arc<Mutex<Receiver>>`
with `async_channel::Sender`/`Receiver`.
- In `codex-rs/codex-api`, replace the realtime websocket event receiver
with an `async_channel::Receiver`, allowing `RealtimeWebsocketEvents`
clones to receive without locking.
- Add `async-channel` as a dependency for `codex-code-mode` and
`codex-api`, and update `Cargo.lock`.
## Verification
- The split stack was verified at the final lint-enabling head with
`just clippy`.
## Summary
- set the realtime v2 server VAD silence delay to 500ms
- update the default realtime 1.5 backend prompt to the v4 text
- keep the session payload and prompt rendering tests aligned with those
changes
## Why
- the VAD change gives the voice path a longer pause before ending the
user's turn
- the prompt change makes the default bundled realtime prompt match the
current v4 content
## Validation
- `cargo +1.93.0 test -p codex-core realtime_prompt --manifest-path
/tmp/codex-realtime-v2-vad-prompt-v4/codex-rs/Cargo.toml`
- `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-pr-v4-target cargo +1.93.0 test -p
codex-api
realtime_v2_session_update_includes_background_agent_tool_and_handoff_output_item
--manifest-path
/tmp/codex-realtime-v2-vad-prompt-v4/codex-rs/Cargo.toml`
- `CARGO_TARGET_DIR=/tmp/codex-pr-v4-target cargo +1.93.0 test -p
codex-app-server --test all
'suite::v2::realtime_conversation::realtime_webrtc_start_emits_sdp_notification'
--manifest-path /tmp/codex-realtime-v2-vad-prompt-v4/codex-rs/Cargo.toml
-- --exact`
## Summary
- wrap realtime startup context in
`<startup_context>...</startup_context>` tags
- prefix V2 mirrored user text and relayed backend text with `[USER]` /
`[BACKEND]`
- remove the V2 progress suffix and replace the final V2 handoff output
with a short completion acknowledgement while preserving the existing V1
wrapper
## Testing
- cargo test -p codex-api
realtime_v2_session_update_includes_background_agent_tool_and_handoff_output_item
-- --exact
- cargo test -p codex-app-server webrtc_v2_background_agent_
- cargo test -p codex-app-server webrtc_v2_text_input_is_
- cargo test -p codex-core conversation_user_text_turn_is_
- Add trace-only wire logging for realtime websocket request/event text
payloads and the WebRTC call SDP request.
- Gate raw realtime logs behind
`RUST_LOG=codex_api::realtime_websocket::wire=trace` so normal logs stay
quiet.
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- Add outputModality to thread/realtime/start and wire text/audio output
selection through app-server, core, API, and TUI.\n- Rename the realtime
transcript delta notification and add a separate transcript done
notification that forwards final text from item done without correlating
it with deltas.
# External (non-OpenAI) Pull Request Requirements
Before opening this Pull Request, please read the dedicated
"Contributing" markdown file or your PR may be closed:
https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/main/docs/contributing.md
If your PR conforms to our contribution guidelines, replace this text
with a detailed and high quality description of your changes.
Include a link to a bug report or enhancement request.
Builds on #17264.
- queues Realtime V2 `response.create` while an active response is open,
then flushes it after `response.done` or `response.cancelled`
- requests `response.create` after background agent final output and
steering acknowledgements
- adds app-server integration coverage for all `response.create` paths
Validation:
- `just fmt`
- `cargo check -p codex-app-server --tests`
- `git diff --check`
- CI green
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Rename the Realtime V2 delegation tool and parser constant to
background_agent, and update the tool description and fixtures to match.
Validation: just fmt; cargo check -p codex-api; git diff --check
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Summary:
- parse the realtime call Location header and join that call over the
direct realtime WebSocket
- keep WebRTC starts alive on the existing realtime conversation path
Validation:
- just fmt
- git diff --check
- cargo check -p codex-api
- cargo check -p codex-core --tests
- local cargo tests not run; relying on PR CI
Adds WebRTC startup to the experimental app-server
`thread/realtime/start` method with an optional transport enum. The
websocket path remains the default; WebRTC offers create the realtime
session through the shared start flow and emit the answer SDP via
`thread/realtime/sdp`.
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## Summary
- reduce public module visibility across Rust crates, preferring private
or crate-private modules with explicit crate-root public exports
- update external call sites and tests to use the intended public crate
APIs instead of reaching through module trees
- add the module visibility guideline to AGENTS.md
## Validation
- `cargo check --workspace --all-targets --message-format=short` passed
before the final fix/format pass
- `just fix` completed successfully
- `just fmt` completed successfully
- `git diff --check` passed
## Why
`argument-comment-lint` was green in CI even though the repo still had
many uncommented literal arguments. The main gap was target coverage:
the repo wrapper did not force Cargo to inspect test-only call sites, so
examples like the `latest_session_lookup_params(true, ...)` tests in
`codex-rs/tui_app_server/src/lib.rs` never entered the blocking CI path.
This change cleans up the existing backlog, makes the default repo lint
path cover all Cargo targets, and starts rolling that stricter CI
enforcement out on the platform where it is currently validated.
## What changed
- mechanically fixed existing `argument-comment-lint` violations across
the `codex-rs` workspace, including tests, examples, and benches
- updated `tools/argument-comment-lint/run-prebuilt-linter.sh` and
`tools/argument-comment-lint/run.sh` so non-`--fix` runs default to
`--all-targets` unless the caller explicitly narrows the target set
- fixed both wrappers so forwarded cargo arguments after `--` are
preserved with a single separator
- documented the new default behavior in
`tools/argument-comment-lint/README.md`
- updated `rust-ci` so the macOS lint lane keeps the plain wrapper
invocation and therefore enforces `--all-targets`, while Linux and
Windows temporarily pass `-- --lib --bins`
That temporary CI split keeps the stricter all-targets check where it is
already cleaned up, while leaving room to finish the remaining Linux-
and Windows-specific target-gated cleanup before enabling
`--all-targets` on those runners. The Linux and Windows failures on the
intermediate revision were caused by the wrapper forwarding bug, not by
additional lint findings in those lanes.
## Validation
- `bash -n tools/argument-comment-lint/run.sh`
- `bash -n tools/argument-comment-lint/run-prebuilt-linter.sh`
- shell-level wrapper forwarding check for `-- --lib --bins`
- shell-level wrapper forwarding check for `-- --tests`
- `just argument-comment-lint`
- `cargo test` in `tools/argument-comment-lint`
- `cargo test -p codex-terminal-detection`
## Follow-up
- Clean up remaining Linux-only target-gated callsites, then switch the
Linux lint lane back to the plain wrapper invocation.
- Clean up remaining Windows-only target-gated callsites, then switch
the Windows lint lane back to the plain wrapper invocation.
# External (non-OpenAI) Pull Request Requirements
Before opening this Pull Request, please read the dedicated
"Contributing" markdown file or your PR may be closed:
https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/main/docs/contributing.md
If your PR conforms to our contribution guidelines, replace this text
with a detailed and high quality description of your changes.
Include a link to a bug report or enhancement request.
- prefix realtime handoff output with the agent final message label for
both realtime v1 and v2
- update realtime websocket and core expectations to match
## Stack Position
2/4. Built on top of #14828.
## Base
- #14828
## Unblocks
- #14829
- #14827
## Scope
- Port the realtime v2 wire parsing, session, app-server, and
conversation runtime behavior onto the split websocket-method base.
- Branch runtime behavior directly on the current realtime session kind
instead of parser-derived flow flags.
- Keep regression coverage in the existing e2e suites.
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## Stack Position
1/4. Base PR in the realtime stack.
## Base
- `main`
## Unblocks
- #14830
## Scope
- Split the realtime websocket request builders into `common`, `v1`, and
`v2` modules.
- Keep runtime behavior unchanged in this PR.
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Only attach session tools for Realtime v2 conversational sessions, and
omit tools in transcription mode so realtime startup no longer fails
with unknown parameter errors.
Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
- add experimental_realtime_ws_mode (conversational/transcription) and
plumb it into realtime conversation session config
- switch realtime websocket intent and session.update payload shape
based on mode
- update config schema and realtime/config tests
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- Advertise a `codex` function tool in realtime v2 session updates.
- Emit handoff replies as `function_call_output` items while keeping v1
behavior unchanged.
- Split realtime event parsing into explicit v1/v2 modules with shared
common helpers.
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- Add a feature-flagged realtime v2 parser on the existing
websocket/session pipeline.
- Wire parser selection from core feature flags and map the codex
handoff tool-call path into existing handoff events.
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## Stacked PRs
This work is now effectively split across two steps:
- #14178: add custom CA support for browser and device-code login flows,
docs, and hermetic subprocess tests
- #14239: extend that shared custom CA handling across Codex HTTPS
clients and secure websocket TLS
Note: #14240 was merged into this branch while it was stacked on top of
this PR. This PR now subsumes that websocket follow-up and should be
treated as the combined change.
Builds on top of #14178.
## Problem
Custom CA support landed first in the login path, but the real
requirement is broader. Codex constructs outbound TLS clients in
multiple places, and both HTTPS and secure websocket paths can fail
behind enterprise TLS interception if they do not honor
`CODEX_CA_CERTIFICATE` or `SSL_CERT_FILE` consistently.
This PR broadens the shared custom-CA logic beyond login and applies the
same policy to websocket TLS, so the enterprise-proxy story is no longer
split between “HTTPS works” and “websockets still fail”.
## What This Delivers
Custom CA support is no longer limited to login. Codex outbound HTTPS
clients and secure websocket connections can now honor the same
`CODEX_CA_CERTIFICATE` / `SSL_CERT_FILE` configuration, so enterprise
proxy/intercept setups work more consistently end-to-end.
For users and operators, nothing new needs to be configured beyond the
same CA env vars introduced in #14178. The change is that more of Codex
now respects them, including websocket-backed flows that were previously
still using default trust roots.
I also manually validated the proxy path locally with mitmproxy using:
`CODEX_CA_CERTIFICATE=~/.mitmproxy/mitmproxy-ca-cert.pem
HTTPS_PROXY=http://127.0.0.1:8080 just codex`
with mitmproxy installed via `brew install mitmproxy` and configured as
the macOS system proxy.
## Mental model
`codex-client` is now the owner of shared custom-CA policy for outbound
TLS client construction. Reqwest callers start from the builder
configuration they already need, then pass that builder through
`build_reqwest_client_with_custom_ca(...)`. Websocket callers ask the
same module for a rustls client config when a custom CA bundle is
configured.
The env precedence is the same everywhere:
- `CODEX_CA_CERTIFICATE` wins
- otherwise fall back to `SSL_CERT_FILE`
- otherwise use system roots
The helper is intentionally narrow. It loads every usable certificate
from the configured PEM bundle into the appropriate root store and
returns either a configured transport or a typed error that explains
what went wrong.
## Non-goals
This does not add handshake-level integration tests against a live TLS
endpoint. It does not validate that the configured bundle forms a
meaningful certificate chain. It also does not try to force every
transport in the repo through one abstraction; it extends the shared CA
policy across the reqwest and websocket paths that actually needed it.
## Tradeoffs
The main tradeoff is centralizing CA behavior in `codex-client` while
still leaving adoption up to call sites. That keeps the implementation
additive and reviewable, but it means the rule "outbound Codex TLS that
should honor enterprise roots must use the shared helper" is still
partly enforced socially rather than by types.
For websockets, the shared helper only builds an explicit rustls config
when a custom CA bundle is configured. When no override env var is set,
websocket callers still use their ordinary default connector path.
## Architecture
`codex-client::custom_ca` now owns CA bundle selection, PEM
normalization, mixed-section parsing, certificate extraction, typed
CA-loading errors, and optional rustls client-config construction for
websocket TLS.
The affected consumers now call into that shared helper directly rather
than carrying login-local CA behavior:
- backend-client
- cloud-tasks
- RMCP client paths that use `reqwest`
- TUI voice HTTP paths
- `codex-core` default reqwest client construction
- `codex-api` websocket clients for both responses and realtime
websocket connections
The subprocess CA probe, env-sensitive integration tests, and shared PEM
fixtures also live in `codex-client`, which is now the actual owner of
the behavior they exercise.
## Observability
The shared CA path logs:
- which environment variable selected the bundle
- which path was loaded
- how many certificates were accepted
- when `TRUSTED CERTIFICATE` labels were normalized
- when CRLs were ignored
- where client construction failed
Returned errors remain user-facing and include the relevant env var,
path, and remediation hint. That same error model now applies whether
the failure surfaced while building a reqwest client or websocket TLS
configuration.
## Tests
Pure unit tests in `codex-client` cover env precedence and PEM
normalization behavior. Real client construction remains in subprocess
tests so the suite can control process env and avoid the macOS seatbelt
panic path that motivated the hermetic test split.
The subprocess coverage verifies:
- `CODEX_CA_CERTIFICATE` precedence over `SSL_CERT_FILE`
- fallback to `SSL_CERT_FILE`
- single-cert and multi-cert bundles
- malformed and empty-file errors
- OpenSSL `TRUSTED CERTIFICATE` handling
- CRL tolerance for well-formed CRL sections
The websocket side is covered by the existing `codex-api` / `codex-core`
websocket test suites plus the manual mitmproxy validation above.
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Co-authored-by: Ivan Zakharchanka <3axap4eHko@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
- collect input/output transcript deltas into active handoff transcript
state
- attach and clear that transcript on each handoff, and regenerate
schema/tests
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- migrate the realtime websocket transport to the new session and
handoff flow
- make the realtime model configurable in config.toml and use API-key
auth for the websocket
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Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
- Introduce `RealtimeConversationManager` for realtime API management
- Add `op::conversation` to start conversation, insert audio, insert
text, and close conversation.
- emit conversation lifecycle and realtime events.
- Move shared realtime payload types into codex-protocol and add core
e2e websocket tests for start/replace/transport-close paths.
Things to consider:
- Should we use the same `op::` and `Events` channel to carry audio? I
think we should try this simple approach and later we can create
separate one if the channels got congested.
- Sending text updates to the client: we can start simple and later
restrict that.
- Provider auth isn't wired for now intentionally
## Summary
- add realtime websocket client transport in codex-api
- send session.create on connect with backend prompt and optional
conversation_id
- keep session.update for prompt changes after connect
- switch inbound event parsing to a tagged enum (typed variants instead
of optional field bag)
- add a websocket e2e integration test in
codex-rs/codex-api/tests/realtime_websocket_e2e.rs
## Why
This moves the realtime transport to an explicit session-create
handshake and improves protocol safety with typed inbound events.
## Testing
- Added e2e integration test coverage for session create + event flow in
the API crate.
Benjamin Carlsson